by David Brooks | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
From Monitor columnist Ray Duckler, an ode to everybody’s least favorite part of Christmas: I hate the thing. Hate it more than the Grinch, more than the Abominable Snowman, more than those romantic, cheesy movies being shown on the Hallmark Channel this month....
by David Brooks | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Lobstering has disappeared from Long Island Sound, and now, reports the Boston Globe, it’s gone from anywhere south of Cape Cod as the oceans warm and lobsters die off or move. This is no surprise – here’s a 2015 story from the N.Y. Post after the...
by David Brooks | Dec 6, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
Remember how warm it was when the leaves started turning color? Your memory isn’t playing tricks on you: It broke a record. September, October and November, the period known as “meteorological autumn” to weather watchers, was the warmest on record in Concord – and by...
by David Brooks | Dec 6, 2017 | Newsletter
You need to have many different skills if you work with sewage. One of them is a skill for crafting euphemisms. “What I politely call ‘the stuff’ is the Achilles’ heel of all wastewater plants,” said Chip Chesley, who, as director of the blandly named General Services...
by David Brooks | Dec 5, 2017 | Newsletter
New England has more than enough power production to meet its electricity needs this winter unless it is hit by a series of extreme events, according to the organization that runs the region’s power grid. Even if extreme cold hits, said ISO-New England, the region...
by David Brooks | Dec 5, 2017 | Blog, Newsletter
The Brunswick, Maine, Police Department may become the first police department in the country to use drones to patrol for trespassers along railroad tracks in town. It would also be make the first in Maine to use drones to look for potential criminal activity, rather...
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